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BOSTON — It was barely a year ago when Anthony Ranaudo stood in the rear of the New Britain Stadium press box, stretched to his full 79 inches and smiled at a question he knew was coming. "Yeah, I was definitely a Yankee fan growing up," Ranaudo said before starting in the 2013 Eastern League All-Star Game. "I was like every kid in New Jersey. I wanted to be like Derek Jeter." Thanks to the delicate stroke of baseball history and sledge-hammered remodeling by Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington, Ranaudo found himself making his major league debut against the Yankees in the final days of Jeter's magnificent journey to Cooperstown. "I'd be...

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